You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from KFI AM six forty. Next contestant Daniel Strom. The word is business. Could you repeat the word please business? Could I have the origin of the word please. It comes from the Latin phrase busnia. Could I have the definition please business one's work or employment. Could you use it in a sentence? Please business? I'm
in the insurance business. Could you spell the word please? No, it's late with bo Kelly k if I AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. I was never good at spelling bees, I admit it. I am always amazed at children who excel in spelling bees. That was just something. If I can see the word on paper, I can realize, Okay, it looks incorrect. I can figure it out. But if you ask me to verbally spell words, I was never really talented at doing that.
I never did well in spelling bees. And even though generally I'm a pretty good speller, but the pressure of the moment and all the Latin roots and different words that to learn from different languages to understand the words that they're asking you to spell, never good at it. So I always like to take a point to take a moment and point out kids, young people who are doing well. Whether they win ultimately or not, it's neither here nor
there. I'd like to shine some light on young people in Los Angeles and Orange County. Some contestants who are unfortunately eliminated today, but they did didn't make it to the Script's National Spelling B quarter finals as of yesterday, and they were eliminated to today. Oliver Hackett Halkitt, a twelve year old sixth grader who attends their Murman School in Brentwood, Brentwood. I'm having trouble just
pronouncing stuff today. Brentwood misspelled dissonant descendant, an adjective meaning forming an end is correctly spelled d e s I n e n t. And Kitlin when Kaitlin, Yeah, Kaitlin Kitlin when, a seventh grader at Helen Stacy Middle School in Huntington Beach, unfortunately was eliminated because she misspelled Ritsu or Ritsu a Buddhist school founded in Japan in seven point fifty four. Who the hell knows
that stuff? But she spelled it ri t zu and it should have been spelled Ri t s U. I wouldn't even be able to compete against these sixth graders at all, not at all. I even like in a spelling quiz that I took in like second grade, that was difficult. I got nothing but props for these kids, and I'm quite sure they will go on and grow up to do great things. But there was one word and I
noticed in this story. And I'm going to bring Mark Ronner in on this because I think he and I do see a lot of the world the same way. We have the same sense of humor and cynicism in many ways. In the third round, this is Oliver Hawkitt, twelve years old, sixth rader. I know you can't guess what word they asked him to spell, but it doesn't seem like a word that would be in a spelling bee. In the third round, Oliver was asked to spell doxy cycling. Okay,
what kid isn't on that. I'm just saying, it's a strange word to ask a child to spell. I'm just looking it up right now. Uh yeah, kids should know about that stuff. It's never too early to learn, right, all right, It's like, use doxy cycling in a sentence. Well, after going to the doctor for some unnamed std John was prescribed doxy cycling. Don't ask me how I know that, Mark I doxed somebody while cycling. It just seemed like that word just came out of nowhere for
no apparent reason. Yeah, but they do that. They're a little bit like Jeopardy. I you know, I thought I was kind of a language nerd, but then they throw one in there that the real gunners who just like sit there with the dictionary for days on end. They can get them, but it'll throw a normal human being a serious curve, Like is that even an earth word from English? No? Well, not a lot of
the words are not English based. I don't know if that's always been the case, but they have words from with derivations and all sorts of languages. I'll give you a perfect example. Caitlin in the third round was given the word derber and I think that's or drbar d r bar like him derber. Well, it's a court held by an Indian prince, or a formal reception held by an Indian prince or an African ruler. So obviously that word is not based in the Romantic languages, or not English at least. Oh yeah,
I would have totally pooped the bet on that one. Yeah, I mean, and I'm quite sure it's more difficult now than when I was in
school. They've had to make it even more difficult. And I think they're down to twenty eight remaining spellers if I'm not mistaken, And the spelling Bee is limited to students in eighth grade and below, So Oliver and Caitlin are so darned smart they'll be able to participate again because they're still not in eighth grade, so they'll have another bite at the apple, you know, just in case you didn't know, No speller from Los Angeles or Orange Counties has
ever won the National Script Spelling Bee. I would imagine that these things would get easier instead of harder, because kids don't have to memorize anything anymore because they have the Star Trek computer with them in their phone at all times. Well, you would have to wonder who is cheating and how are they cheating, because cheaty goes on in every aspect of these types of competitions, not spelling, I'm just saying, just competition generally. I remember the first time
I heard that someone was cheating at the soapbox races. Remember that they have the Soapbox races Derby, and the Derby cars would be coming downhill and someone had installed magnets on the front of the car so when the gate flipped down, it would pull the car forward and have a slight advantage at the beginning. What's wrong with people? You know? But hats off to anyone who enters a spelling bee who does well in a spelling bee. I don't know
how well to Wall didn't spelling bees. He probably did better than me. I'm being serious. That was just something I never was really accomplished at and I wanted to. It's but the pressure, my goodness. It's one thing to try to spell a word, but most of these words I haven't even recognized. In the fifty four years of my life. I've never seen that word before. Durbarbar. I think there's some courage, and it's one of those things where you think it's easy when you're sitting there on your couch,
but there's no way you could do it in real life. It's this is more difficult than Jeopardy because I've had friends who were drilling for the bee and the amount of information they have to to digest. It's amazing. That's why that movie bad words, it's so prevalent. Well, yes, it's so true. Well if you ever saw the movie Aquila and the Bee, that was also a good spelling bee movie starred Lawrence Fishburne. And what's her name? Uh? The one? Yeah, girl, the girl's popular and I've
interviewed her. She's no, No, she's in Nope. Yeah, I know that she's in Nope. Key. She had a whole thing with Usher a little while ago. Yeah, I know you know her, you've seen her. I know I'm googling. Made a big impression on you. Yes, Palmer, Yeah, yeah, that's how she actually got her start. Fush is a spelling me champ. Who why, doggy dog? I mean you are? Yes? Why did you not like a national champion? We had a whole conversation about the spelling Bee and you didn't. Yes, he
was conveniently quiet over there. You didn't add that to the conversation. Oh, by the way, mo I am a spelling bee champion. Yeah, because that's what it would sound like the time point. This is the time you play that card right now, this is the ace you play it, play the ace. Well, no, no, he's a shamed that he didn't become famous like a rock star and get a big heroin habit and everything. He's got a normal working job now, and that's not the trajectory for
a spelling d champion. Okay, I gotta ask a question first, a few questions before we go to break. How old were you ten? Did you get a lot of play from the girls afterward? Absolutely not really, no thought you'd be like a rock star. No. Then it was like uncool to know stuff, so you were looked at as like a geek or a nerd or now it's cool. Yeah, it was segregated back then. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was. It was a it was a difficult time for nerds. It was uncool to know stuff. Yes,
no, honestly, yeah, yeah, agreed. Yes, they made a whole movie based off of the problem with knowing stuff, Revenge of the Nerds. Right, you'd never heard of you even? Yeah, even twenty one Jump Street the movie when they redid it, they come back and uh, you know, Channing Tatum is like the cool guy, but then when they came back, you know, as undercover students, he was the uncol guy because he was trying to be cool. No, one got mad at you
Mark for messing up the bell curve. Just bring on the meteor, Just bring it on? Can you saying just quitting in life on Earth? Yeah? Yeah, back then you didn't catch that. You didn't know that term. No. Oh, well, since you a little bit younger than us, are our nerds still despised, hated and bullied? I No, I don't think so. Okay, when you were growing up five years ago, five years ago, when I was in college, Yeah, sure, it's all relative. Five years ago, I was like, here, it's Later
with mo Kelly. Can if I AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. We have some dollar Tree ninety nine cent good news when we come back. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. You may remember ninety nine cents Only recently closed hundreds of stores nationwide because it filed for bankruptcy. And I had a favorite ninety nine cents only
store. It was one that I used in Harbor City where I was growing up, and when I got my first apartment in Torrents, not too far from Harbor City, bought everything from ninety nine cents only if you're going to furnish an apartment. Outside of furniture, you go to the ninety nine cents only store all the cleaning items. If you needed a mop ninety nine cents only store. If you needed like candles, or you needed dishrags, towels, ninety nine cents only store, needed a broom, ninety nine cents only
store, it was perfect for that. So I had a lot of fond memories of just becoming a real grown ass adult thanks to the ninety nine cents only store. And I had recently spoken to the CEO, I want to say, maybe two or three months ago, and we talked about that store in general, how long it had been, because it had been at it for at least forty five fifty years or so. And to see that it was on the list of stores which were shuttered closed, you know, almost
dropped it tier just about. I got sentimental for a second. But Dollar Tree is reportedly the winning bidder for at least ninety three different ninety nine cents only store locations all around California, and most of them reportedly are here in southern California. The bids and the undisclosed terms are a subject to court approval, so this is not a done deal. And you may remember most of the stores were closed a week ago after the discount sales way. And did
you see some of the pictures. It was really sad. It was sad because they were I mean, what is a clearance sale at a ninety nine cents only store? Everything in the store is just a nickel. I don't know where you go if everything is on sale at the ninety nine cents only store. I never got a chance to go by and check it out, but I was curious to know. But it at least seventy stores which were closed were on that list from southern California, everywhere from Alhambra to Wittier and
in between. And in the company release ninety nine cents, interim Chief executive Officer Mike Simonsik, who I said I had spoken to, said shifting consumer demand, rising shrink, or theft as they call it, and the pandemic
quote presented significant and lasting challenges in a retail environment. Rising levels of shrink, persistent inflationary pressures, and other macroeconomic headwinds all greatly hindered the company's ability to operate, and Dollatree has did you know that Dollatree has another major competitor. I didn't really know this. Did you ever go to Dollar General? Yes? Is it is that southern California based? I don't know, and I can't really I don't recall any difference among all of them. Yeah,
I don't go ahead. No, I don't know either. I've heard of it, but yeah, Dollar Store was my spot, but a lot of people that aren't from here know about Dollar in General. Yeah, I guess maybe it's maybe it's more eastern or southern focus. I just don't remember seeing what another couple where I'm from, Okay, up north them, Okay, well maybe that's it, yeah, because I mean it was just Dollar Tree or the ninety nine cents only, and oftentimes you would see them within a
block of each other. They're like right next to each other. And from what I understand, it's a marketing thing where it's not unusual to see a McDonald's and a Burger King really close to each other, because the marketing and the demographics have already shown that fast food in that particular location will work well. So maybe that translates to the whole discount shoppers where if you put one store there. The clientele is already open to that, so put another one
there. But yeah, I would always see a nine nine sense only in a Dollar Tree, very close to each other. I always thought like Dollar General and Family Dollar were closer to like a grocery outlet, yes, than like a dollar store. That's like how I thought it was like comparing the two. Now. I remember back in the day, ninety nine cents only had food as well. I don't know about Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree started.
They have freezers, but they don't have like the fresh vegetables and stuff like yeah, yeah, but they still have like the freezers and they're like pantry goods and stuff. Okay, Mark, I've never eaten any of the food from those places. And there was one I used to go out and go to to get postal supplies because when you have to buy an envelope or a patient ripe or something like that, at the post office they got you over a barrel, but if you go they're dirt cheap at the dollar stores.
But so I was always kind of fascinated by the food and the freezers in the back, but never wanted to roll that gastro intestinal dice. I remember the first time I saw milk at the ninety nine cents only store and I said, there's no way in hell. Yeah, exactly, because there's no way they're getting Why. I know, with with grocery stores, they almost like have a pecking order how they get food they get, especially when
it comes to produce. There's an order in which they get to choose to produce, and I have to assume that they're not getting the freshest milk. I'm just assuming that, you know, it's probably expiring in twenty five minutes from when it hits the shelf. Now, if you want to try the food their planet before you got a couple of days off work, I just couldn't trust it, you know. I just never and I'm barely starting to trust Target barely on some items. Target is turned into a quasi grocery store
as well. That's interesting because Tuala and I just off air had a discussion of some Target food he got that apparently had some explosive repercussions. I'm saying, that's my point. I said, I'm not quite there. I'm just just getting kind of comfortable with Target. There's certain things that I'll open myself up to buy from Target. Like maybe why yeah, whose is safe and you can disinfect it with the booze you can well, or at least in
the movies you can, yeah exactly. It's Later with mo Kelly. Can't b I Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And when we come back, we have your mid week horoscope. We didn't get to do it on Monday, so we're going to do it in the middle of the week. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty Can't I Am six forty. It's Later with mo Kelly. It's time for your mid week Horoscope. We didn't do this on Monday, which was
Memorial Day, but we didn't forget about you, all right. This is to ignite your confidence. Aries. You felt a greater fire coursing through you for weeks. Aries. You're supercharged in nearly every way. The key to harnessing all this powerful energy is to focus on the most important personal and professional goals you'd like to tackle, then set forth to accomplish them. The projects, actions, and goals that you begin now will be infused with strength and
likely reach a successful conclusion. You're also radiating sexual magnetism even more than you usual, So seize control and lure romance to you. If you're feeling a bit stir crazy or aggressive, get involved in physical activities. Seem like that's just one long sexual innumindow no pun intended, Taurus. The past month has turned much of your attention to your private life, Taurus. You may feel a bit more tense and anxious, or perhaps you might be working on tackling
mental health matters or finding closure from the past. If you do your best to overcome this, you may find better days ahead. Use this energy to become deeply invested in working on projects in solitude or behind the scenes. The plans you are developing now may come to light in June or July, so use this time wisely. Do Gemini, this is for you, Mark, Let's have it. You're a social butterfly. What else is This isn't just a lifestyle for you, however, it's a core piece of your personality.
You're currently in a period of socialization, expanding your network and likely engaging with communities. You may find you enjoy what life has to offer through your connections with people, ultimately causing you to thrive, learn, and grow As a result, you could also be in hot pursuit of very significant hopes, dreams, or goals. By working with a team like later with mo Kelly, you're likely to reach at least one major goal soon. Keep your eyes on
the prize and work swiftly. Well that's hopeful cancer, Okay, I think this is Stefan. You've been in the fast lane on professional projects recently, and right now you're in a chariot ready to dominate your path forward. You're in one of the best periods in a two year cycle to move quickly up the professional ladder and realize your ambitions. Launch projects, court authority figures, reach for public recognition, aim for a promotion, or look for a better
job. By Stefan, if you focus in and use the energy that is in your favor now, you could set up a two year trend of success, glory, and victory. Go for it now. Do not settle for less, Leo. There's been a burning in your soul recently. All you want is to soar high above everyone else. You hunger for personal and professional growth and crave to be unlimited. The best part about this the more you seek to shake it up, try new things, and venture into new horizons
physically, mentally, spiritually beyond. The more you will grow and the faster it'll happen in the next two years. Don't sit in the shadows, don't get complacent. Life is about taking action, being confident, and showing the world that you are fearless. Virgo. A deep hunger for closeness and intimacy has been boiling under the surface as of late Virgo. If you're in a happy relationship, you could be experiencing more passion, sexuality, closeness, and
teamwork. If you're single or have an unhealthy connection, you could be licking your wounds around trust, vulnerability, neediness, or past relationship traumas. You may be feeling a bit down on yourself and a little bit lonelier. The best thing to do dig deep within yourself to understand your true needs so that you can find more enriching and intimate connections. Libra. Partnership is always important to you, Libra. However, the past few weeks have created an intense
need for union. The best thing to do right now. Glad you asked work with a significant other and embraced teamwork. Setting off solo at this time will make it feel like you're encountering hurdles at every turn, but by finding the right personal or professional partner, you will rapidly move toward happiness and your goals. Also, be aware of tension bubbling behind the scenes in a relationship or with a competitor. It could be grading your nerves, so try to
find peaceful solutions. Scorpio, here you go, Twala. Life likely feels like you have a million and one priorities to constantly tackle right now, There's just so much to handle at this time. Productivity and efficiency are top priorities in order to achieve it all. You may feel like there's a lot of pressure coming at you from your workplace, employment, or clients. If you seek to get a lot done, Fortunately, you should feel a surplus of
energy. Opportunities to find new work, projects or clients may arise as well. Go for them, Sagittarius. This is for you and me, producer Keiana. There's been a lot of focus on productivity in recent months. The heavens above have been bringing a vibrant hunger for passion, pleasure, and laughter to your heart. At the same time, you are in a magnificent period to enjoy life, have fun, and indulge in pleasure in hobbies. Romance
and sex especially are cosmically are cosmically aligned. Now, if you'd like to improve your intimate life or is single, find a passionate love affair, you must put yourself out there and strike quickly. Well, seeing as how I'm married and you're engaged, going to get married in months that I I mean, you can, but it might mess up the relationship. But back to this, you're setting up a two year cycle around love expression and enjoyment.
So make all of this a top priority now, Capricorn, And this would apply to miss Tiffany Hobbs, who's coming up with the viral load at the top of the hour. Tiffany, Capricorn. You always have a domestic focus, but it is even more top of mind now. It appears there's a lot of hustle and bustle around home, family, real estate, or domestic matters. It has been building all month and it is even more of a focus now. This may appear in the form of moving, renovating, redecorating,
or handling situations around living experiences. You may also be forced to get involved in some big family matters, like helping a parent or one of your kindred tackle a goal, channel that energy and allow it to give you strength. Is that accurate? Oh my gosh, it's like it knows me. Okay, so it got you right, it got Mark right. Well we think, okay, well we'll just takets worth. Sure, Sure, Stefan, I'm not so sure. He seems to be kind of I kind of
missed it. I know you were busy. Well the chariot they mentioned first, Stephan is his uber. Well. They also said that he'd probably be looking for a new job soon, so that kind of attracts. Did it really said? Yeah? Chasing professional goals out? God? No, I'm still here, Robin, I'll you. I thought you say, like b I could never leave the show that that's my point. I'm not going anywhere, okay, just want to be sure. No Tuala gets jealous. So
Aquarius. Life has been a whirlwind in recent weeks, Aquarius, and it still feels that way. You're likely experiencing a very social period with friends, neighbors, or siblings. In addition to a lot of travel to This week would be a great time to visit a nearby destination or even play tourists in your own town. The more that you go with the flow and embrace spontaneity,
the more fun you'll have. Also, if you've been involved in any big intellectual projects, they will likely see a successful launch if you fine tune the details now. And lastly, Pisces. As much as you don't like to focus on or worry about money, Pisces, it appears there's a major attention on your financial life this month, especially now. Maybe you're fighting for
clients or raise, or perhaps you're feeling overwhelmed with work projects. You may also be in the middle of some very big expenses, as if the entire universe is making you quote unquote pay up for things that keep being thrown your way. Fortunately, if you use this time now to balance your budget and look for ways to increase your monetization, you too could be in quite a bit of good luck coming your way. And that is your horoscope, your
midweek horoscope. To ignite your confidence. Be bold, be strong, be like Mark nice, knowing your foush strong like bull. It's later with bo Kelly, can't I am six forty We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And on the other side, we're going to go cruise in and We're going to tell you about the passenger who died jumping off Icon of the Seas, the Royal Caribbean ship, the largest one in the world. Sad story, really sad story, or maybe it isn't. You'll decide. You're listening
to later with Moe Kelly on Demand from KFI AM six forty. This story about the passenger who died jumping off the world's largest cruise ship had to do with Royal Caribbean Icon of the Seas. The male passenger, who was not as of yet identified, reportedly jumped from the twenty deck high from the very
top of the Icon of the Seas. That's the largest cruise ship in the world, had its maiden voyage earlier this year, and this person jumped from the twenty high deck twenty deck high after it left a Florida port on Sunday to embark on a seven day cruise around the Caribbean. I've been on that cruise with Royal Caribbean. I know what it's like, and it would seem like you would want to If you're going to do it, Why jump at
the beginning of the cruise, jump at the end. At least have something to go out on if you're gonna if you gonna go up with a big splash to go at the end. And I think it's probably someone who unfortunately took their own life, because that's that's the only reason that you would actually jump from the top deck. And this is what the report is. The person jumped, not sell overboard, not got drunk and intoxicated and lost their
balance. On all these cruise ships, I would say the railing when you're on the top deck, especially with Royal Caribbean, they come up, I would say to the average person to about their chest. You have to try to get over. And there are certain portions if you ever been have you ever been to the Empire State Building. People used to jump there a lot. But in New York City, if you go to the Empire State Building, they put these bars up top which curl in word so you cannot climb
them and climb over and then throw yourself down to the pavement below. Some of the cruise ships now they have something similar where it's it's really a deterrent for anyone to try to do that, but they can't protect everything on the ship. And Royal Caribbean, which operates icon for the seas, they launched a search and rescue operation for the person. They say, quote, our care team is actively providing support and assistance to the guest loved ones during this
difficult time. For the privacy of the guests in their family, we have no additional details to share. Customarily, when you go on a cruise, you don't go by yourself because sometimes they'll make you pay for double occupancy because there's limited room. Where like if you're gonna go by yourself, like, well, it's two to a cabin, so you're gonna have to pay double. It doesn't say whether this person was traveling by himself or not. That's
something I would know. They don't give that information. They just say that this person just jumped. And I know that we were talking about mental health and athletes earlier in the week, and who knows what's going on in someone's mind. But this is something I always wonder anyone who should think about choosing suicide, who would you want to find the body, Who would you want to burden that person with for the rest of their lives. Who would you
want that to have to deal with that memory, that image? And the reason I talked about this as far as this person going alone. If this person actually went with someone on the cruise, oh my goodness, what do you do? Is day one of the cruise and whoever you travel with jump to their own death. And I know, Twala who's walking in the studio. He only wants to walk in here to say another reason why he will
never get on a cruise ship. I know, just hurr up and say no, no, no. Actually, my thoughts on this, and something that I was thinking about was when we look at the individuals that were jumping
at the Disneyland. At Disneyland jump on through, is this something that being that as it's being reported, that more people will look to do because it seems obviously from reading the story that this was intentional, that this was this man's intent, and could this then spark a new trend in suicidal tendencies for individuals? That was what jumped out of me first. I was like, Wow, this individual sought out this cruise to do, not just any cruise,
the tallest largest cruise ship on the waters currently. And when you look at how the first jumper at Disneyland sparked more or influenced more, what will be done in the terms of possibility but the difference is, and I'm not trying to be flipping, I'm just being serious. I can drive to the Disneyland parking structure tonight with really no effort, no deterrent. To get on
a cruise ship, there's a lot of booking and planning that's involved. You have to do a lot submitting your passport and all that kind of stuff. You just get on the ship saying nothing of the thousands of dollars that you probably paid. That's that's the disconnect that that I just don't understand where it would have been easier and simpler if that was the goal to just do something
else. I And again we don't know that we don't say to this individual, but it seems that if you go through all of this, that you wanted your death to make an impact, You wanted your death to be seen. You didn't do this with the intent of it just going under the radar. Yeah, And as just you know, as a disclaimer and as an advocate, like, please, if you are contemplating suicide, there is people that want to help there, please reach out. You can text the suicide
hotline, call the suicide hotline and let me find the number. I had it right here. It's nine to eight eight. So please, if you are contemplating it, you know people are out there that want to help. So twalllet does this mean that you would at least consider a cruise? Now? No, this, this has nothing to do with my apprehension. Call
it an outright fear of deep dark water. There's no business that I have on any cruise ships, not this one, not the Royal Caribbean, not the Disney Cruise, not the Cruise Cruise, not the rebranded, reborn Titanic held to the no for all of them. Is it because you don't know how to swim that? And I just have a sheer paranoia, a literal fear of water like that. I don't even walk out on the pier at
Santa Monica just because I look at that water and I'm petrified. Is it just the ocean or is it it's ocean lakes pool that's even like getting in a pool and looking at the deep end, like going under our looking at the deep end. I'm out and I'm not getting back in the pool. I don't know what it is. It's called a phobia. Yeah, I mean, like to me, ocean water lake stuff like that it might as well be buzzing, might as well be a bee. Dad, Hey,
don't bring my bees into this, all right? Uh, Stephan, don't reach the button. Look, I will walk into your studio and tear that place up. Do not. Just let me know when you're done. Okay, I'll go to break when you guys are done, You finished? You had enough? Did you enjoy that? I did? Okay? Can I go to break now? I think you should? Okay? If I am six forty, we're live everywherey I Heeartradio app. Nothing gets past us.
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